“I started with WOLF and worked backward trying to come up with the name. I must have spent all of 25 minutes on it,” he said, tongue-in-cheek.

So you can imagine the Colorado Springs Republican’s shock/dismay/outrage/indignation when he discovered that Democratic Sen. Mary Hodge of Brighton in October started her own political-action committee called, you might have guessed it, Wolf PAC.

Waller, who will be the minority leader when the session opens in January, said he called Hodge to give her some “grief” over the name. He said Hodge replied that she didn’t learn that people called his committee Wolf PAC until she had her fundraiser in October.

“She said she didn’t think there would be any confusion, and I said, ‘Send me your e-mail list and I’ll try to figure that out on my own,'” he said, with a laugh.